Nikita McNeill appeared in an Article 2 inquest concerning the death in A&E of a young woman with significant learning and physical difficulties. The deceased was admitted to the Royal Cornwall Hospital Trust after vomiting for 24 hours. The Coroner heard that in the two and half hours following her admission doctors and nurses failed […]
Last week the Divisional Court fundamentally revised the standard of proof as applied to certain coronial conclusions. Previously, it was understood that a conclusion of suicide had to be established to the criminal standard of proof. In the case of Mr Maughan, an inmate at HMP Bullingdon, the coroner agreed that there was insufficient evidence […]
Nikita McNeill appeared as junior counsel to the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) last week at public hearings into the case of Peter Ball, former Bishop of Gloucester, who was convicted in 2015 for offences which included indecent assault and misconduct in a public office. He was sentenced to 32 months imprisonment. The Inquiry […]
Gavin Irwin represented an Emergency Medicine Registrar at an Inquest before the Senior Coroner for the Black Country. The deceased presented at the A&E Department of Russells Hall Hospital, Dudley with a sore ankle and, sadly, died as a result of necrotising fasciitis less than 48 hours later. This rare condition spreads rapidly, for reasons […]
The family of Corporal Darren Nielson, the tank commander, was represented at the inquest by Alexandra Tampakopoulos instructed by Clare Stevens of Hilary Meredith. On 14 June 2017, a tank commander and operator were killed and two other crewman injured after the Challenger 2 tank in which they were conducting a live firing exercise exploded […]